Re: [Sheflug] Installing Kernel Problem

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J <Chris> writes:

    >> On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Chris J/#6 wrote:

    >> I've also seen build problems with 2.4.14 here, but I'm not
    >> convinced 2.4.15 is going to be any better - I haven't managed
    >> to get any of the 2.4.15-pre versions to compile yet :(
    >> 

    Chris> 2.4.15-pre1 built ... and then OOPs'd then rebooted came
    Chris> back, and an hour or two later, ping, telnet, ftp,
    Chris> traceroute, ssh all decided to cause a "Memory Fault" on
    Chris> execution ... thus I thought networking were broke, but
    Chris> that Mozilla and licq worked.

    Chris> I'm back on 2.4.13 now ... oh and I was wrong about the
    Chris> other broken kernel ... I have a patch for 2.4.12 that
    Chris> fixes parport.c ... someone got a #define wrong and
    Chris> promptly broke the module so it would build.

    Chris> 2.4.15 /should/ in theory have fixed most of the problems
    Chris> as Linus is handing 2.4 over, not to AC, but to Marcel (I
    Chris> think it was) to do the maintenance after 2.4.15's been
    Chris> released, so expect 2.5 to open in the not too distant
    Chris> future.

Yep, it's (still) Marcelo Tosatti - works for Conneciva, IIRC.

At one point it look to me that Linus was suggesting it _would_ be
Alan, but don't ask me where I got that idea from.

Slashdot have got an 'interview'[1] thread on the go for him - waiting on
the answers tho.

There does seems to have been a number of  hassles of various sizes in
the past few releases with the kernel (*cough*2.4.11*cough) and then
2.4.12 with the parport hassles.
I so far haven't touched the newer 2.4.14's - I tired of recompiling a
kernel each day, so I've stuck with 2.4.13-ac3.

LWN[2] this week mentions a little bit about the -ac series kernels -
doesn't look like Alan thinks there will be much to do for a little
while after all his changes get merged before 2.4.15.

Cheers.

Baz.



Footnotes: 
[1]  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/14/1611227&mode=thread

[2]  http://lwn.net/2001/1122/kernel.php3

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